Volume 20 Page 02
Reminder: Din Maia Hin is basically the only dragon left in Zaiapan after Darumatha caused them all to attack one-another back in chapter 17.
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So I was just looking at page 2 of Broken Space, my first comic, and something funny struck me: though the page betrays no understanding of perspective or architectural planning, the curves on that bridge still looking pretty good. That’s because I drew the page manually with Microns on a piece of Bristol board and scanned it in. I got a Wacom tablet about halfway through Broken Space, and while you can detect a noticeable improvement in line quality, my irregular curves were never quite as good.
A French curve is a wonderful piece of plastic with different degrees of curvature: you slide it around the page until you find the curve you want, and once you’ve found what you need it’s as easy as drawing a straight line with a ruler. By contrast, Photoshop uses an arcane and (to me, at least) mostly impenetrable “pen” system that’s supposed to allow you to draw all kinds of curves but usually ends up producing a godawful mess. I use the Pen tool by rote to create the pointers of my word balloons, but I’ve never mastered the trick of re-creating the French curve.
I’m very excited to see how all of this wraps up. Sad to see Vax dead, but I suppose he already beat the odds repeatedly…I guess his luck couldn’t last forever.
Well, what’s left to free on Okidesha?
We’ve got her mind(intellect and wisdom), her power, and her soul…what’s left?
A question!
An answer: whatever property that she and Gurahl possessed that allowed them to manipulate the underlying moral precepts of reality.